Entry of the Week: Friday, Sept. 26 @ 2:32 - 3:05 a.m.
An intoxicated male student signing into a room in West Village F was reported. NUPD responded and spoke with the student who was conscious and alert. The underage student admitted to drinking and was referred to O.S.C.C.R. No medical transport was required. 30 minutes later another intoxicated male signing into a room in Speare Hall was reported. NUPD responded and spoke to the student who was conscious but not alert. Boston EMS was notified and transported the underage student to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The RD was notified, and the student was referred to O.S.C.C.R.
In keeping with the trend established by former university president Richard M. Freeland, Northeastern continued to rise in the US News and World Report list of Best National Universities. It is now number 42.
On Monday, Sept. 29, the Provost Search Committee held an open forum for undergraduate students on the second floor Mezzanine of the Curry Student Center.
September marked the announcement of the winners of the MacArthur Foundation’s Fellows Program. Mary L. Bonauto, Northeastern alumna and the civil rights project director for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), was one of the lucky recipients.
Hundreds of thousands of concerned participants flooded the streets of New York to raise awareness of climate change and the need for reform during the largest event of its kind in history — The People’s Climate March. The march garnered a massive student turnout with many environmentally-oriented clubs from Northeastern making an appearance.
Aaron Kanzer, a third year political science and economics combined major, jetted off to Hungary this summer to present and defend a pair of papers he wrote for the Global Debate and Public Policy Challenge (GDPPC). Following his eighth place finish, Kanzer boarded another international flight to visit an unlikely friend and mentor: Wolfgang Petritsch, former Austrian Ambassador to the United Nations.
From newspapers to radio and television, and now online news and social media, the platform in which people communicate and merge with media has changed. And as the industry changes, the key storytellers of the industry have to change and become entrepreneurial, said Ellis Henican, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Newsday columnist, New York Times Best selling author and radio and television personality.
BrowZine is a brand new app that enables students to browse, read, search and monitor Snell Library's academic journals. The app provides simple access to scholarly articles, journals and research papers across a vast array of disciplines, without having to print out mammoth chunks of paper or lugging around laptops all day.
Raytheon Amphitheatre was packed to full capacity as students and professors came in droves to hear Dr. Ross Cagan speak about his cancer research last Thursday. Cagan has the ability to create personalized treatment models for patients by testing different treatment techniques on fruit flies.
As of Sept. 5, students have been able to vote for this year’s DogHouse t-shirt, a decision usually reserved for a select few.
“Rather than having five people decide for the masses…we’ve decided to open up it up to the public,” current DogHouse leader and fourth year Health Science major Mike Davis said. “We want to make it a point to show that The DogHouse is a collective, and that every person, from a freshman new to campus to a senior about to graduate is a part of it.”
Last Friday, President Aoun was joined by Secretary of the Department of Transportation (DoT), Anthony Foxx, state senators, Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, Gov. Deval Patrick and Mayor Martin J. Walsh to present a $20 million federal grant to renovate Ruggles Station.
As stated by the World Health Organization, early detection of cancer greatly is a primary requirement for successful treatment.
Recipient of the 2014 RISE undergraduate award for Physical and Life Sciences, senior chemistry major Douglas Townsend,and Max Diem, professor of chemistry, are pioneering a new form of cancer diagnostics.
